Surrealist visual diary #1

30 artworks to celebrate Surrealism 100th anniversary

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Welcome back to Giselle daydreams! I decided to publish an impromptu post and presenting my first Surrealist visual diary. The whole of October (minus one day to be exact) I posted a Surrealist artwork on Notes and I thought I wanted to immortalise my selection by making a post.

Giorgio de Chirico, Piazza d’Italia, 1950

Leonor Fini, Comme tous les soirs, 1977

René Magritte, L’idée, 1966

Leonora Carrington, Le livre de chevet, 1956

Circle of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Anthropomorphic Still Life with Pots, Pans, Cutlery, a Loom, and Tools

Hans Bellmer, La Poupée, 1936

Fragmente by Edgar Ende

Dream of Venus, the entrance of Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist funhouse, 1939

Man Ray, Nusch eluard with mirror, 1935

Salvador Dalí and Elsa Schiaparelli

Salvador Dalí, à l'heure de l'observatoire les amoureux (Lips of Lee Miller), 1934. © Salvador Dalí.

Dora Maar, Untitled, 1935. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019.

Dorothea Tanning, Voltage, 1942

Man Ray, Le Violon d’Ingres, 1924

Joan Miró, Carnival of Harlequin, 1924-25

Giorgio de Chirico, La comedia e la tragedia, 1926

Francis Picabia, Première rencontre (First Meeting), 1925

René Magritte, Schehrezade, 1950

Nakaji Yasui. From the Photobook Hikari (Light) Maruzen. Osaka, 1940.

Salvador Dalí, Lobster Telephone, 1936

Salvador Dalí, Woman with Head of Roses, 1935. © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2007.

Michael Cheval, Lullaby of Uncle Magritte, 2016

Man Ray, Mélancholie, 1926

René Magritte, The Portrait, 1935

Man Ray, Tears, 1932

Leonor Fini, Personnages sur une terrasse, 1938

Claude Cahun and Moore, Aveux non avenus, 1929-1930. © Beatrice Hatala

Paul Delvaux, Woman in the Mirror, 1936

Leonor Fini, Rogomelec, 1978

Salvador Dalí dans l’eau, Port Lligat, Spain 1953. Photograph by Jean Dieuzaide © Jean Dieuzaide.

Fin.